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Deadly season

Vulnerable alcoholics

by Eve Silberman

posted 12/1/2008

Just a year ago, a forty-seven-year-old homeless man was found dead at a park-and-ride lot on Ann Arbor–Saline Road. While no one tracks the grim statistics, people in the homeless “business” say his fate was tragically typical: most winters, at least one local homeless person dies of exposure. How can this still happen twenty-five years after the founding of

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